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<span class=large>JOEL</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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All nations shall be at war—Multitudes stand in the valley of decision as the Second Coming draws near—The Lord will dwell in Zion.
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For,</span> behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/1a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB cause the return.">bring</a> again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
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I will also <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Micah 4: 11; Zeph. 3: 8.">gather</a> all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/3/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 66: 16; Jer. 25: 31; Ezek. 38: 22.">plead</a> with them there for my people and <i>for</i> my <sup>c</sup><a href="joel/3/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 19: 25.">heritage</a> Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
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And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
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Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine?  will ye render me a recompence?  and if ye <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reward.">recompense</a> me, swiftly <i>and</i> speedily will I return your <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/3/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 32: 35.">recompence</a> upon your own head;
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Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
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The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
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Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath spoken <i>it.</i>
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&#182; Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG War.">war</a>, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
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Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I <i>am</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Cor. 12: 10; Heb. 11: 34; Ether 12: 27; D&C 50: 16.">strong</a>.
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Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 13: 3.">mighty</a> ones to come down, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Let the <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Heathen.">heathen</a> be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/3/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Judge.">judge</a> all the heathen round about.
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Put ye in the <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 26: 5; D&C 4: 4.">sickle</a>, for the <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/3/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 6: 3; D&C 101: 64.">harvest</a> is ripe: come, get you down; for the <sup>c</sup><a href="joel/3/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="Rev. 14: 19; D&C 76: 107.">press</a> is full, the <sup>d</sup><a href="joel/3/13d" mark="d" type="D" title="OR vats.">fats</a> overflow; for their wickedness <i>is</i> great.
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Multitudes, <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 14: 2 (2-5); Rev. 16: 16.">multitudes</a> in the valley of decision: for the <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/3/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Obad. 1: 15.">day</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> near in the valley of decision.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Last Days; TG World, End of.">sun</a> and the moon shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/3/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 23: 10.">darkened</a>, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Second Coming."><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></a> also shall <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/3/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 30.">roar</a> out of <sup>c</sup><a href="joel/3/16c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Zion.">Zion</a>, and <sup>d</sup><a href="joel/3/16d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 133: 21.">utter</a> his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall <sup>e</sup><a href="joel/3/16e" mark="e" type="C" title="D&C 21: 6; TG Last Days.">shake</a>: but the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>will be</i> the <sup>f</sup><a href="joel/3/16f" mark="f" type="B" title="TG Hope.">hope</a> of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
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So shall ye know that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Millennium.">dwelling</a> in Zion, my holy <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/3/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Joel 2: 1; Zech. 8: 3.">mountain</a>: then shall <sup>c</sup><a href="joel/3/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jerusalem.">Jerusalem</a> be holy, and there shall no <sup>d</sup><a href="joel/3/17d" mark="d" type="C" title="Zech. 14: 21; TG Strangers.">strangers</a> pass through her any more.
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&#182; And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Earth, Renewal of.">mountains</a> shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/3/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 47: 1; Zech. 14: 8; Rev. 22: 1.">fountain</a> shall come forth of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 19: 16 (11-25); Ezek. 29: 2; Zech. 10: 11.">Egypt</a> shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence <i>against</i> the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
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For I will cleanse their blood <i>that</i> I have not cleansed: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> dwelleth in <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/3/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 3: 17; Zech. 2: 10 (10-12); Rev. 22: 3 (3-4).">Zion</a>.
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